All articles by Wendy Mitchell – Page 2
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NewsGoteborg Film Festival names Pia Lundberg as artistic director
Former journalist is well known and respected in the Nordics and internationally.
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NewsREinvent boards sci-fi drama ‘After Us, The Flood’ (exclusive)
Arto Halonen (Princess, The Guardian Angel) directs from a script by Ossi Hakala.
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FeaturesAFM 2023: The buzz titles from Europe
Includes 3D animated film ’Paul McCartney’s High In The Clouds’ from France’s Gaumont.
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NewsDenmark’s ‘Empire’ wins $45,000 Nordic Council Film Prize
The award was handed out tonight during a ceremony at Oslo’s Opera House.
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NewsLevelK strikes with ‘Checkered Ninja 3’ (exclusive)
The first two films were released in 2018 and 2021 and set box-office records in Denmark.
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NewsBuyers thrill to TrustNordisk’s ’Nightwatch - Demons Are Forever’ (exclusive)
The thriller has sold to Germany and Austria (Capelight Pictures); Hungary (Vertigo Media); Benelux (September) and Middle East (Oceana).
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NewsTrustNordisk takes on 3D animation ‘Super Charlie’ (exclusive)
Jon Holmberg writes and directs, with animation by Oscar nominee Karsten Killerich and Stine Buhl.
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NewsStockholm’s UK focus includes lifetime award for Ken Loach
Industry talks include masterclass with David F Sandberg and Stockholm Bloodbath case study.
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NewsTrustNordisk boards international sales for ‘Stockholm Bloodbath’ starring Claes Bang
Film co-stars Sophie Cookson, Mikkel BoeFolsgaard, Ulrich Thomsen, Emily Beecham and Katie Ashfield.
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NewsFiction Norway 2024 project market to focus on Arctic and Indigenous voices (exclusive)
The Fiction Norway project market is held in Tromso on January 14-15.
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NewsReykjavik film festival celebrates 20th anniversary
Source: RIFF ‘Solitude’ Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 28-October 8) is planning a busy 20th edition, with honorary awards going to Isabelle Huppert, Luca Guadagnino, Vicky Krieps, Nicolas Philibert, Luc Jacquet and Catherine Breillat, who will all come to the Icelandic capital. A delegation from Cannes will ...
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NewsNordisk, Qvisten plan ‘Maxi & Helium’ animated feature (exclusive)
Book series has sold 3.5m copies across the Nordics.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute unexpectedly parts ways with CEO Anette Novak
Exec only took up role in April 2022.
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NewsIceland submits Hlynur Palmason’s ‘Godland’ for international Oscar race (exclusive)
The film was a standout title from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard line-up in 2022.
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Features‘The Promised Land’ team talk collaborating with star Mads Mikkelsen and the historical epic's complex shoot
Director Nikolaj Arcel and producer Louise Vesth discuss the three-country film shoot for their 18th-century epic.
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NewsREinvent boards Hisham Zaman’s TIFF-bound ‘A Happy Day’ (exclusive)
Zaman’s previous films ’Before Snowfall’ and ’Letter To The King’, both won the Best Nordic Film prize in Goteborg.
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Zentropa’s Louise Vesth on having a messy desk, her email tip, and why she works with young people
Vesth also recalls a controversial press conference with Lars von Trier.
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NewsUpcoming Amanda Kernell and Renate Reinsve projects excite industry at Haugesund
The industry programme at the Norwegian festival included a focus on UK projects.
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NewsLevelK boards Norwegian family action comedy ’Viktoria Must Go’ (exclusive)
The film is being presented this week in the works-in-progress selections at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films.
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NewsNordic Council Film Prize nominates first Greenlandic film for $45,000 award
Six nominees vying for the lucrative annual award.